The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

In some school districts, a specific diagnosis — and even the first-hand testimony of a neuropsychologist — can be crucial for accessing the best services. Those can range from occupational and speech therapy to small group time with a teacher to a publicly funded spot in a specialized private school.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

A cross-section of a brain scan sits on the desk of Tim Odegard, a professor of psychology at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro. If diagnosis and help still remain elusive, they can pay for private neuropsychological exams , which can cost thousands of dollars.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Just 15 percent of the roughly 1,000 students at the school receive free or reduced lunch , a federal marker of poverty. 77 percent of public school students are economically disadvantaged. Public Schools closed its gifted and talented programs. By contrast, in Washington, D.C., This trend intensified when, in 2005, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

When Williams and her classmates began considering colleges, Marcovitz wanted the teenagers to have the same experience he’d had at Maret, a prestigious private school he’d attended on scholarship in D.C. psychology class. That fall, Williams switched her major from music business to psychology in hopes of becoming a counselor.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

For generations, intelligence tests have played an outsize role in America, helping at times to control who can join the military and at what rank; who can enroll in the nation’s most elite private schools, and even who can be executed under federal law. It even happens in preschool, this withholding of academic supports.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: It can be difficult for a public university to vie for those candidates against better-funded private schools, Allen said. “If Higher Education. Mississippi Learning. If we are in a bidding war with Stanford or Johns Hopkins, that can be a challenge,” he said. percent to 6.6 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2021

As the coronavirus pandemic swept the country in March 2020, she first lost her job as a cook and food server at a private school in Savannah, Georgia. Last spring, Ciera Pritchett watched her life fall apart. This story also appeared in NBC News. She believes the answer is a resounding “yes.”.

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APRIL 26, 2019

Many among this small number are the children of higher-income families who can afford to pay for private schools or to hire college consultants, exacerbating a level of income inequality that economists at Puerto Rico’s Census Information Center say is third-highest in the world, after South Africa’s and Zambia’s.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

The show has everything — sociology, psychology, interpersonal relations, ethics,” says Barile, who is in her 24th year of teaching. “We In class, students study all the familiar concepts of high school English, but they’re applying these concepts to a work they care about passionately. We watch the show and dissect it.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

Wider problems outside of the school system exacerbate the challenges individual schools face in serving students with disabilities. The net of medical and psychological services that support children outside of school is riddled with holes, which makes services within the school system all the more important.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2019

At FCI Dublin, women were studying English literature, psychology and sociology when Metz first arrived. Buck had earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology at Dublin the year before the ban. She earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology a few months after Metz came home. Metz told Buck she was scared of the test.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Though grounded in complex positive psychology research, the strength-based approach boils down to a simple rule: Focus on what students do well. Others use strength systems designed by the British Centre of Applied Positive Psychology or by Thrively, a California-based startup. Is strength-based instruction feasible in most schools?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

If you are a working parent with regular office hours, the group that your child belongs to depends on how much you can afford to pay for after-school care. Turns out that most of those who can’t afford to pay private school tuition can’t dole out funds for after-school programs either.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

Related: Why one school district tried something new — even though people were happy with the status quo. At Hawken School , a private school in Cleveland, Ohio, students in the entrepreneurship program engage real problems from real companies, later working to identify problems of their own to tackle.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

She added that voucher programs for private schools, which DeVos supports, have often failed students with disabilities — private schools either aren’t willing to serve them, or require them to waive their rights under federal laws such as the ADA and the IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2018

Related: We need an education commission to take a critical look at private schools. Department of Education’s official announcement of the commission made clear what it was supposed to do: “The Commission has been charged with quickly providing meaningful and actionable recommendations to keep students safe at school.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2016

” Related: HB 1523’s Religious Refusals Could Discriminate Against Public, Private School Students. ” The American Psychological Association says there’s a difference between dysphoria and being transgender. Do you think you know better than I do where I’m going? I just have to pee, right?”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Chatfield High School in Minnesota doesn’t offer sociology (or German, or criminology, for that matter), but when senior Keagan Clarke, 18, finished a fall semester class in psychology, his teacher suggested he try sociology. We don’t want to lose students.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

But Betsy DeVos attended private schools and sent her children to them. ” may be a way of sidestepping catastrophic thinking , a common feature of psychological anxiety in which people systematically and irrationally overstate the likelihood of a negative event. Her qualification to be Secretary of Education?

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